Monument record 1285 - LOCH NA BUAILE, NORTH UIST

NF97SW 5 9073 7004.

(Area NF 908701) A high wooded island near the W end of Loch Na Buaile is said to have been occupied by a dun. The walls of some building could be traced here c.1870 when the summit was bare, but at the time that Beveridge wrote, the island was so overgrown that no structural remains were then visible. There is however, evidence of an under-water curved causeway from the SE of the island to the shore of the loch, which suppports the tradition (E Beveridge 1911).
Classified under 'Duns': traditional site, heavily overgrown; nothing to be seen (RCAHMS 1928)
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

NF 9073 7004. This wooded island, measuring 29.0m E-W x 10.0m transversely, is as described by Beveridge. No trace of a dun or other structure could be seen, but a submerged causeway could be traced from the S side of the island to an adjacent smaller islet and thence to the shore.
Visited by OS (R B) 24 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 155 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 94, No. 301 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.